Saturday, March 21, 2009

Culture vs Christianity

A few quotes from J. Gresham Machen on Culture and Christianity. My only question is if a Presbyterian wrote this, and if its really about subverting and using the diversity of culture to the glory of God, why then do they all look the same? Oh well, its all grace, even them. Otherwise grace would not be grace.

"There are no labour-saving devices in evangelism. It is all hand-work."

This is why people complain about it, and say its hard, or make stupid excuses not to go out and talk to people. If you dont, it just means your weak. Deal with it people. Do hard work. Its called being a Christian. Like Dr. Clark says, "Plan for disaster, be a Calvinist."

"False ideas are the greatest obstacles to the reception of the gospel. We may preach with all the fervour of a reformer and yet succeed only in winning a straggler here and there, if we permit the whole collective thought of the nation or of the world to be controlled by ideas which, by the resistless force of logic, prevent Christianity from being regarded as anything more than a harmless delusion"

Here is why the modern world rejects Christianity,

"On the contrary, rejection of Christianity is due in the vast majority of cases simply to indifference. Only a few men have given the subject real attention. The vast majority of those who reject the gospel do so simply because they know nothing about it. But whence comes this indifference? It is due to the intellectual atmosphere in which men are living. The modern world is dominated by ideas which ignore the gospel. Modern culture is not altogether opposed to the gospel. But it is out of all connection with it. It not only prevents the acceptance of Christianity. It prevents Christianity even from getting a hearing"

Speak church, fight, stand, or die.

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